Julie Siebert

Julie Hayes Seibert, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A. Dr. Seibert is a Research Leader in Analytic Consulting and Research Services at Truven Health Analytics. She has over 20 years of experience in research, program and policy development, and direct behavioral health consumer care. Background: Dr. Seibert is a health services researcher and behavioral health clinician whose work has focused on system performance and consumer outcome quality measures in health and behavioral health care, as well as behavioral health service development for specialized populations. Recent Experience: While at Truven Health, Dr. Seibert has assisted on a number of state-level quality measurement projects including the development of behavioral health quality measures and patient safety quality measures. She has also served as the Project Manager for the development of a home and community based services consumer experience survey. Prior to joining Truven Health, Dr. Seibert was a behavioral health manager whose primary responsibility was supervising implementation of Medicaid managed care in North Carolina’s public mental health system. Prior to that, she worked as an evaluator for the State of North Carolina, analyzing the impact of State-level policy changes on the financing and delivery of services in Medicaid behavioral health programs. She also conducted a study of emergency department utilization of individuals with behavioral health crises with a specific focus on how disposition impacts emergency department utilization and emergency department wait times. Dr. Seibert has extensive experience in the external quality review of public health and mental health Medicaid managed care programs. Education: Dr. Seibert has a Ph.D. in Health Policy Management and an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A, in mental health counseling from Gallaudet University, and a B.A. from Duke University